[LONG] The fonts SIG irregular status report

2009-01-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Hi all, Since Fedora 11 Alpha is quickly approaching, here is a much-delayed edition of the fonts SIG irregular status report. I should probably have done one for Fedora 10 release, but (silly me) expected then that the new font packaging guidelines would be adopted quickly. After all, they only

Re: [LONG] The fonts SIG irregular status report

2008-11-18 Thread Jens Petersen
As I wrote before, I don't think we could win a lot by automating. Well I tend to agree now: a good set of templates and rpm macros seems the right way to go. Jens ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com

Re: [LONG] The fonts SIG irregular status report

2008-11-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 18 novembre 2008 11:33, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 11:11 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Mar 18 novembre 2008 09:32, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : Please review http://nim.fedorapeople.org/rpm-fonts/rpm-fonts-1.8-1.fc11.src.rpm and the other files in this

Re: [LONG] The fonts SIG irregular status report

2008-11-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 18 novembre 2008 11:33, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : I will vote against this proposal and this package. Rationale: All these macros do is causing further pollution of the rpm macros, break many details (try rpmbuild --define '_datadir /opt/foo' and add further cross

Re: [LONG] The fonts SIG irregular status report

2008-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 18:58 -0500, Jens Petersen a écrit : Actually we have 57 since Behdad requested FersiWeb fonts and no one I should not be that hard really to generate a script to generate a skeleton spec file for any given font . I know some packaging people frown on automated